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Bright Nights at Forest Park back for 28th season

A scene from the Bright Nights at Forest Park light display
Spirit of Springfield
The Victorian house at the Barney Estate is one of the displays at Bright Nights at Forest Park.

Visitors will see new displays along the 3-mile drive through the park

The largest holiday light display in New England and one of the region’s premier tourist attractions begins a new season tonight.

Bright Nights at Forest Park in Springfield will be a bit brighter this year with the addition of a new light display.

While the show in Forest Park went on even during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, another longtime holiday tradition in Springfield remains on ice. The Parade of Big Balloons, held the Friday after Thanksgiving, has been canceled for the third straight year.

Spirit of Springfield produces both events. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the organization’s president Judy Matt.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.